Case: Gold case with hinged lid. The case enamelled en-basse-taille with translucent blue with gold flowers. The back with a rope-twist border in black and white surrounding a portrait bust of a young man in a plumed helmet against a dark blue ground. There is no counter-enamel on the inside. Gold pendant with loose ring.
Dial: Within an engraved border on the front plate is an enamelled dial decorated en-suite with the case within a white enamel chapter-ring with hours I-XII and straight-line half-hour marks. Blued-steel hand.
Movement: Gilt-brass plates with four elaborately pierced foliate pillars. Mainspring barrel with tangent screw set-up mounted on the back plate. Fusee with chain and standard stop-work; three wheel train; verge escapement; pierced foliate balance cock screwed to the back plate. The watch now has a spiral balance spring.
Movement signed:
David
Rousseau
David Rousseau, Geneva 1641-1738.
The unsigned case is in the style of Pierre Huaud the elder, Geneva.
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